Reasoned Consideration

For all the progress made in machine translation, some things are perhaps still best done by humans:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jul/05/teaching-english-fractal-grammar-claypole " Bring chaos theory to English language teaching By relying on grammar rules in class, learners are in danger of becoming detached from the dynamism of spoken language" Sigh, this old relativist bunkum again, re-packaged in pseudo-scientific drivel by making "non-sequitious" references to fractals. The rules of grammar may be flexible and may appear elusive at the fringes, but they are certainly not "chaotic"; there is a huge difference between "playing with language" within the confines of its complex but flexible "rules" (e.g. the "does my broadband look big in this" example), and simply making grammatical errors that reflect errors in both thinking and elementary sentence construction (e.g. dangling modifiers). Pretty much by definition it is children that do not know the difference, and you first need to learn and master the f...